No big news this week except that I’m properly moving the update day to Monday. My schedule shifted recently, so this seemed to make the most sense! The Friday updates were mostly happening on Saturday anyway, so this should help a bit.

Shoutout to my friend Erin! She’s currently running a Kickstarter campaign to print volume two of Next Town Over, her wonderful frontier fantasy webcomic. Working with Erin on the Poor Wayfaring Strangers anthology earlier this year was a delight, and I just cannot recommend her work enough.

I promise he’s not just walked into a broom cupboard. Anyway, we’re back! In retrospect I probably should have taken a week or two off between chapters as I usually do, but I guess I didn’t want to lose any momentum after the Patreon launch and things. Thanks for the kind words and emails, and I’ll definitely be pacing myself a bit more evenly in the future.

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http://www.redmoonrising.org/archive/2778/#commentsFri, 11 Nov 2016 15:50:43 +0000Kyethnhttp://www.redmoonrising.org/?post_type=webcomic_post&p=2778…]]>Hey everyone, sorry to do this so soon after getting the Patreon launched, but I’m not going to be able to get a new comic page done for this week. There were a lot of factors that came together to make it so that I just couldn’t get it finished, but honestly, I’ve been pushing myself pretty hard to get things done on time (you might have noticed updates have been happening on Saturday a bit lately), and I really just needed to take a break for a week to refresh and regroup. Turns out normal people really need weekends every now and then, go figure.

Again, sorry for the missed update, especially to my Patreon backers. I’m working hard to make the updates as regular as possible, and things should be back on track for next week.

One of my favourite things about making this comic is coming back to characters after a while and getting to draw them again with all the neat new tricks I learned since they were last in the comic. And it’s been over a year since we last saw Galak! Not quite as long in comic time, at least.

I’ll be getting a sidebar button thing for RMR’s Patreon as soon as I find a moment to make it, but in the meantime we’ll just have to make do with me bleating about it every week down here in the news post. Thanks again to everyone who’s chipped in.

Finally, I kind of wish I could embed noise or sounds in the comic (as annoying as that would be in practice), because I would definitely jam this sandstorm noise over the whole story arc.

The response to Red Moon Rising’s Patreon launch last week has been fantastic! Thanks to all of you who chipped in, and also to those of you who spread the word. It really means a lot to me, and is a great first step towards hopefully being able to work on this thing full time one of these days.

We’ve blown right past the $100 mark, which is of interest to everyone reading (patron or not) since it means I’ll be permanently removing all ads from the website ASAP. Cheers, guys!

That’s the end of the chapter, and I have a big announcement to go along with it!

I’ve started a Patreon! I think I may be the last webcomic on the internet to actually set one up, but here it is!

For those who don’t know, Patreon is a way of supporting creators of continuous projects (like, say, longform weekly webcomics). Pledge a few bucks a month to support me and the comic, and in return you’ll get wee rewards that are detailed on the Patreon page, including wallpapers and drawings and things.

Also, as I touch on in the Patreon description, I would loooove to spend more time on Red Moon Rising, but at the moment I make my living as a freelance artist and a lot of my time is committed towards that, on account of it paying money, which I then exchange for food (an important catalyst in the webcomic making process).

Anything that comes out of this campaign will go a long way towards stabilising my income and would let me make room in my schedule to produce more content for you guys, which is basically all I want to do for as long as I can. I don’t know about you, but I am really into this whole webcomic thing.

Anyway, thanks as always for reading, and for your support! I’ll be back next week with a cover for the new chapter.

Sorry about the missed update last week, that was obviously not ideal. I had a bit of a rush of freelance work (mostly due to delays from my eye infection) and I had to make a decision between doing my work, doing the comic page, or rushing to do both and wrecking my wrist.

That said, everything’s back on schedule now, so hopefully that should be the end of the weird delays. Thanks for reading, everyone!